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your every day light. what it ends uf up costing you in the long run. monday on fox 45 news at 10:00. >> next on fox 45 morning news. >> it was. for a grown man i was shaken. i was scared to death. severe storms rip through parts region. where she the saw the most damage. >> balancing the budget. former govenor he was in on the current administration. >> and you're in for a wild ride at the video store. we've got this week's hottest dvd refleetsz low down. live in high deaf nation from wbfftv in baltimore this is fox 45 morning nooz, all local. all morning. >> good morning. you are taking a look at some of the damage left after this weekend's severe weather that ripped through this area. this was sent in by one of our viewers, scott fromel ston, not

such a pretty site in his neighborhood and even where his home, maybe in his backyard. not a good look this morning aivment lot of people have dealing with this having to clean up after what we dealt with over the weekend. good morning t is monday, august third. i'm patrice harris. let's cheek in with steve and see if the storms are out of the way for now or just wet after this weekend. >> yeah, and it is out of the way for now. it looks like it won't be 'til wednesday or thursday that we see strong storms again. those storms we'll wait to see. a possible tornado. we know we had tornadoes touch down on friday and n- frederick county. very active weekend. we hope we don't see anything like that again any time soon. again, the next best chance of storms that could be strong are wednesday and thursday. until then let's enjoy today. take a look at a where we start o.72 degrees, a little bit of cloud cover in spots.

a little fog left over from where there was rain yesterday. be aware of that 82 degrees by the noon hour. more sunshine as we get to the latter part of morning and afternoon. 84 degrees at 6:00 p.m. after high temperatures today right around 88 degrees. 73 in baltimore as we speak an surrounding areas in the low 70's. sky watch hd rar dar not indicating a whole lot going on in our area now. after the fron pal tall boundry to the east. the future scan well off to the rant tick ocean. nothing expected here 'til wednesday. and let's check on the roadways with candice. she she is here with the traffic edge. good morning. >> good morning steve. we are dweelgt storm after math this morning. unfortunately it is causing big time problems in elkton. we have flooding at creswell avenue. as a result you could stick with 95 but problem is a little farther down. there is now an accident on the

northbound lanes of 95. right at route 543 and the problem is this is causing some lane closures as a result. as we get more information, we'll continue to keep you up to date. now, here's just a little bit north of 543 and as you can see it's going to be an easedy drive there. the north and southbound lanes. a little farther down is where you'll find the difficulty. as of the entire northeast stretch heading down towards 69 5 , moderate con getionz, an 11 minute clip. it ease up a bit through the city on the south 95. that will only take five minutes. on the west side of the beltway not much to complain b. so far so good for monday morning. we're only only looking at an eight minute ride. that's a look at your morning commute. patrice back to you. >> and 6:04 now on fox 45 morning niewvmentdz you heard the rain and felt the winds yesterday but was it a tornado that ripped through our region? this morning the national weather service will make that

determination. they'll be out evaluating the damage that many of you are still cleaning up this morning. megan gillan joins us now with the late east. >> good morning megan. >> good morning patrice. seems everyone got wet yesterday but not everyone is dealing with this today. take a look at what folks in cecil county are waking up to this morning. the clean up started late laugh night after the storm ripped through this neighborhood still has down power lines and broken branchesz covering the streets there. trees were uprooted and thrown around leaving some homeless. this owner says the owner in this place is in their 70's and were forced to move into i a hotel for a while. major structural damage. the tree limbs went through the house. all the roof rafters and shingles, neferg there is wiped out. it will be condemned. >> all morning long we've been getting photos from you in the storm damage in your neighborhoods. take a look at some that scott

elton took. see what the strong winds were able to do. we o got pictures in from john and ellen gillan. they captured pictures from the bay. severe weather and they have a lot to clean you. video of a story or photos or an upcoming event, give us your take on fox baltimore.com. you can up loatd pictures, video and stories by going to baltimore.com/you're take. and send pictures to wbff.com and we'll be checking with weather service to see if this was in fact a tornado. stay with us. megan gillan, fox 45 news. >> and main is dead after a boating accident. the man believed to be in his 20's fell into the water and was reportedly struck bit boat's month tomplet he went into cardiac arrest and was pronounced dead.

>> baltimore county is considering installing speed cameras in school zone. one griewp is wrd trod put the mess brakes on the plan. it would allow for 12 to 15 cameras in work or school zones. violaters would be fine $50. group maryland responsible enforcement is o fotsd leg legislation. they say it's less about safety and more about make money for government. a new state law opened the door for counties to install the cameras if approved. >> and a government pro yam to boost car sales could get new needed horse power. less that be a weekend before it began, the cash for clun cers program ran out of money because of popularity. they will put an add mall $2 billion into the program if approved this week. under the plo bram eligible buyers can get a 4500-dollar rebate from the government for tradeing in a gas imuz letter

for a more fuel efficient car. the start of what could be a program to help mentor kids through sports is getting help from the same place. cal ripkin junior was there. we have more on an ambitious plan for swing for the future. good morning. >> good morning patrice. ambitious is right. a 6 million-dollar plan for five ball parks to get kids involved in sports and that gives them a chance to be men toward by leaders including cal ripkin junior himself this is the stadium home site. i guess cal ripkin played short ash that that area. they will bring back features. we have john with us here i deally, if we get it go, whoo wh could we see the memorial charm back with us? >> we'll well, we're hoping to break next spring and of months

later we'll have kids running on the field. and fundraise saying big issue p. especially in this economy. we're halfway home. it's a million five for the field and we're halfway there. will the rest of the community be able to use this? our plan is to use this for the a wide rain. open it up to the local schools and ann all kinds of youth organizations. and you talked to cal ripkin jiewr on about this yeah, we v. we've had a great partnership with call and his foundation and billy and they are really excited. because you got call and billy play here and they played for their fawrnlg father down ear. it is the cal ripkin senior foundation and very involved with the yiewfnlgt they say if this program works well in baltimore, they will take it nationwide. i'm joel d smith, fox what 45 morning news. >> still to come, get into the groovment we're live with a

preview of the baltimore music festival coming up next in our home town hotspot. >> and i bit of a break from the active weather weekend question had today.

6:12 on fox 45 morning news aviator nay does on friday and possible for nay does yesterday. time to check in with meteorologist steve and see what we can except for today. hopefully no more for nay does. >> it does shot look that way patrice. we deserve. >> and fed rick county seeing a couple of tornadoes on friday

and yesterday the possibility of tore nay keyed doad. we'll wait to hear to confirm from national weather service later. looking a whole lot better. radar showing a quiet scene out there at the moment. you seek showers offshore off the carolina coast. that's along a frontal boundry that moved to the east now. that front brought us the storms yesterday. some conditions up in wisconsin, looks like and iowa with stormy weather there. that is to the north and out of our way. we're not too concerned about that. the harbor, mostly cloudy skies being reported there. could be fog after the rain that push thriewd yesterday. winds are calm. 71 percent humidity and the barometer is on the rice as high pressure builds in today that are will contribute to the nicer day. still a humid day. the temperatures all in the low 70's. actually hager's town dropped a degree. 63 there.

55 in oakland. everyone else in the low 70's. 71 in dc and 71 in salisbury. and speaking of what brought us the storms now well off to the east. behind it pressure biltdz in that brings more sunshine today and things will be looking a whole lot better than they did this weekend. as we push things along here on our future scan mold. to find the front we're pointing out moving to the north and east. now the next front we're keeping an eye on is due to get here by wednesday. we have all this warm moist air that is in place. the jet stream is well to the north around here. we're getting this warmth and moisture nothing of our direction. it will get warm again today and get hot for tomorrow. as temperatures climb from the upper 80's to 90 assist tomorrow. today looking at 88 degrees for the high and with that humidity will feel like a warm one here in the eastern shore. west northwest winds at five to 10 miles per hour or west southwest winds.

northwest becoming southwest in the part of state. 88 degrees we're expecting for a high under mostly clear skies. we may start off with more cloud cover early on with the fog like i said. paich fog and look for clearing later in the day, in fact later this morning. 85 for the western part of the state or weather where we see sunshine as well. 69 degrees. over night low with partly to mostly cloudy skies. it will be eye a humid night. again w a chance of a pop up storm today and tomorrow t will be a remote chance. a dry day today and tomorrow. 88 for the high today. expect to get to 82 by noon. 88 by 3 o'clock in the afternoon and back to 84 at 6:00 p.m. 91 for tomorrow and they say pop up shower thunderstorm chance just 20 percent chance. generally dry and i better chance of showers and thunderstorms comes late on wednesday as the next front approaches and thursday a high of 85 with a thunderstorm chance. can't rule out a thunderstorm on

friday or saturday. 86 on sunday with dryer and partly cloudy skies. fox 45 sky box wach weather is now at your fingertips iewvment can use fox 45 powerful doppler radar to track the storms. interactive storms thaw see where wh the rain or storms is over your house. click on i- radar on fox baltimore.com. here is candice with the traffic edge. >> thank you steve. we're checking in on your i've rej speeds so. far things are starting to drop. not too significantly but it will be a definitely building on the trend. we dropped a mile on 95 through the northeast corner. 56 on jfx and 63 on the 83. here's we we see a significant job. we're on 53 on the west side of the beltway and 61 moving on 95 through howard county. the issue we need to talk about is storm damage. we're dealing with flooding this

morning in elkton. it is affecting the roadway there. route seven is completely shut down at crestview avenue. you want to use 95. that will be a cam ride through the area. that is one thing in elkton, watch out possible debris you're moving. i saw it in the central part of the state as well moving through the top end of the beltway moving through pikesville. this will be an issue this morning. be aware too. 95, we have an issue there, there's an accident that completely shuts down the ramps from north 95 to route 543. here is the area. this is north of that accident. you can't really see any accident scene activity there. here it is. you can see quite a few cars travel thrg. as a result of this accident stick with route 40 instead. 95 is going to be relatively calm moving through the white marsh area heading down to 65. and it will be a smooth right to the city in the for the ma ken ri tunnel. taking the southbound lanes

we're checking in at alg an 86 minute commute and 97, these cars are crews ago lofnlgt both nowj north and southbound lanes. more storm damage to talk about in ra vera beach. there are fallen power lines this shuts down bedford road at clover hill road. that's a look at the morning commute. patrice, back to you. >> candice, thank you. still head, sasha unleashes her inner fears. week talk. i told you don't touch me. we have a sneak peak at beyonce in obsessed. coming up in the low down. >> i walk thriewd the door and they say oh my goid have not stopped for a house call in 50 years and thank you for coming. >> and next that, was the new and in with the old. latest health care trend that's a

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be prepared as you get up and get ready for a new week. good morning. i'm patrice harris. let's cheek in with meteorologist steve and see what we can expect today r. any more storms on the way or are we done with tornado watches? we're done for the time bsmght this is the time of year where we have heat and severe storms. but we get a break today and tomorrow and maybe we're talking strong storms late in the day wednesday and into thursday. just the time to clean up and maybe get things messy. abu we have confirmed tornadoes in fed rick county and waiting to see from cecil county yesterday. first from friday night it was an active weekend and it begins this new week quietly with high pressure building in. you'll see that as the front pushes off to the east. height pressure center will dominate our weather toot. a northwesterly flow that becomes southwesterly that will bring the heat and humidity but keep us dry for the most pamplet

there is a chance of a pop up thunderstorm. the afternoon is always the case when you have the heat and humidity. as youing see quiet on the radar. 73 in baltimore. 71 in washington dc. 73 in dover. cooler to the west. here are the weather headlines and today mainly dry and a warm and humid one as we climb to 88 for the high. the thunderstorm chances return mid week by wednesday we're thinking into thursday and not as hot ar orr humid by the end of the week. still, we can see a few showers and thunderstorms into the beginning of the weekend. let's see what's happening on the roadways right now with candice. she has the traffic edge. could be foggy in spots. >> that is where the rain came through the area, we're seeing spots of fog but no incidents as a result. we have violent storms that ripped through airt yeah now liefg us with the storm damage this morning. as a result we had flooding fact in elkton, a completely shut down route 7 right at crestville avenue and you want to stick

with 95 as the alternate route moving through that area a little farther down there is trouble on 95. an accident that shuts down the ramp from northbound lanes headington route 543. this is north the accident scene. you can see those cars cruising up to speed but northbound and southbound ends. it gets congestive moving from mountain road heading to 695. right now we're in the yellow with an 11 minute commute. it eases up on 95 through the city in on the fort ma ken ri tunnel. and traveling loongt westbound. the outer loop laiks lanes take from jfx to the 70. some company but no significant issues that will fake 13 minute oosms that's a look at the morning commute. patrice, back to you. >> can dirks thank you. 6:32 on fox 45 morning news this morning the national weather service will determine fay tornado ripped through our region yesterday. strong winds and heavy rain left damage in our areas leaving many

families with a big clean up job today. megan gillan joins with us the pictures of what's left behind. good morning megan. >> good morning pa treessments everyone sought gray skies and heard the rain yesterday but severity of the storm vary depending on where you live. here in the city very minute map. with places like cecil, devastating maybe an under statement. take a close look here this is in elkton where the clean up is just beginning this neighborhood on st. michael's court. down power lines and broken branches cover the streets after yesterday's storm rips through. some of the residents tell us they were inside their homes at the time and heard it all i opened up the front door and just look outside and i could see our tree bent way over. everyone's skirting was blowing and the roof shingles were blowing all over and it shook the house. >> it was very scary. >> i was shaken. for a grown man i was shaken. ways scared to death a. frederick county saw damage.

take a look at the video one of our viewers heamplet you can see down trees and tree roots ripped right from the ground. yesterday's storm comes days after the tornado touched down in frederick county. it is possible what you're cleaning up to be could the aftermath of a tornado. the national weather weather service will be out to determine what ripped through and whether it's photo of weather damage, video of a story in your community or an upcoming event. give us your take on fox baltimore.com. you can up load pictures and video by going to fox baltimore plt come slash you're take. or send the picks by your cell phone to picks baltimore.com. we're geting in pictures of storm damage in your neighborhood. megan gillan. fox 45 morning miewz noovment moo news i teenage ser dead ave double shooting in west baltimore. it happened yesterday afternoon in the 800 block of allen dale

street. a unknown gunman opened fire shooting a teen in the back and another man in the leg. >> from what we know, both of the victims were on the block when an unknown gunman approached on foot, opened fire and then flesmed we do have information that sthawghts he did get into a white conversion mini-van with a blue stripe on the side and tinted windows. both victims were taken to area hospitals. the 18-year-old was pronounced dead within an however the shooting. the other victim's injuries are considered nonlife threatening. police are still searching for a suspect. >> baseball is coming back to 33 street. the same place where brook, boorks eddie and call used to play will be the new home for players of a different sciefnltd joel smith is live at the old site with the latest. good morning joel. >> hi there patrice. it's approved this is the real site. this is the actual place where home plate was and i'm think being where my seats were most

of the time. if that's home plate was probably sitting way up there behind you. anyway, this is the place where memorial stadium was. so many great memories and they are trying create more with the call rip continue foundation that will change sthingz. this say product that's nn bn in the works for how long. been in the works for three years now and it's been the last year where he we referred up the activity. and we talk about it being a mini memorial stait staid yument. what things will look familiar? we're going to try to in core pore rate the arch sign. cal ripkin has the old stadium letters that ended up in his garage somehow and we'll try toin core pore rate those. at end of the daits a baseball field so that brings back memories. it will be a community field that light of people get use out of. over all the foundation is trying to reach kids especially.

it's all about serving kids. giving kids a place to play that's sairvetion a place to play. getting them physically active and really in core pore rating the values thalt cal ripkin believe are important. and if things work out well, how much fundraising is left and when can we see dirt moving out here? we're halfway for this feevmentd if all goes well, hopefully by the spring we'll be there. that's for this location and five total in the city with the foundation trying to get going w. if the program works ows out like they expect it torks they will take it nationwide. i'm joel d. smith. fox 45 morning news. >> still hearksd sasha unleashes her inner fear. >> we can talk. i told you don't touch me. >> we have a sneak peak at beyonce in obsess ood coming up in the low down. and violent storms rip through the area yesterday and now we're dealing with the

damage. i'll tell but some flooding shuts down a road in elkton and

x 45 morning news. time to check in with steve sto see what we're in store for ave weekend of tornadoes and bad

about whether. good morning steve. good morning patrice. we're in for a break today. nothing active today or tomorrow. maybe wednesday we talk bay return to the active weather. right now here's why whatever sky watch radar looks like. not active at all. that's a welcome change from what we saw this weekend when we had confirmation of two tornadoes. one touched down in car ral county on friday and we're waiting to hear about the possibility of tornadoes touching down in cecil county yesterday. calm now. things are different maybe to deal with fog. that's about. it where there was rain you may see patchy fog but otherwise the cold front well off to the east taking the rain with it as you can see. back to northwest, active storms. right now in the midwest moving to the north and east out of our way. that will not be heading in our direction. at the harbor current lirks it is 73 degrees with mostly cloudy skies. winds calm. 71 percent. relative humidity and the barometer on the rice. high pressure building in with a

nice afternoon. 53 degrees. still humid. temperature wise we're at 73 in baltimore. 71 in dc and about the same in salisbury. temperatures generally from the central tart part of the state east. low 70's. 6n-9 in haggers town and cooler still in oakland. here's what we're looking at again. the frontal bound cri moving off to the east and moving out of our way. high pressure builds in for today. let's try that again. that will bring us more sunshine and a kale mer day today. as you seek the future scan poald push that's rain out ufer of our way. this as a told you that, low pressure center with the cold front trailg moves to the north and east. the next one is the one you see here. that's the one i mention cod come in wednesday and thursday when we see a return of stronger weather then. to the eastern shore today. 88 degrees for the high. mostly clear skies with a west southwest wind at five to ten mievmentz central part of state claims up to 88 as well with

mostly clear skies and the northwest becomes southwest at 5 miles per hour. back to the southwest we go, look for temperatures to get up to 85 and cooler unless you're headed to the mountains, upper 70's there. west northwest wind at 5 miles per hour. definitely looking a whole lot better. it will be a mainly dry today day today. with heat and humidity dryer. 69 for the over night low. a humid night and humid day as well that continues to be the case for tuesday and wednesday. meanwhile today we get 2082 for the 234507b time temperature. 88 for the highest part of the day around 4 o'clock and 84 at 6:00 p.m. tomorrow hot and humid as we get up to 91 degrees then and mainly clear skies gauze bawfs the humidity and the heat we could have a pop up shower i'm showing a 20 percent chance even though i'm not sthoag on the weather icon there. as we get to wednesday the chance of thunderstorms returns. 93 for the high because of the

health of the mon fron tall boundry. we'll keep the shower and thunderstorm chances on friday and 83 on friday and 84 on saturday. 84 sunday with partly cloudy and a hive 86. sky watch weather is no at your fingertips. it would of come in handy this weekend. you can use the powerful doppler radar to track the incoming storms and a tool that let's you see when rain or thunderstorms will be over your house. go to fox baltimore.com and click on ira dar. >> here is candice with a look at the traffic edge. thiewrchg steve. we're dmek on the average speeds. so far we're doing all right. heading on 95 moving through the northeast core nempletz 64 miles per hour. we saw a significant job on the jfx. 34 miles per hour on the southbound lanes. a lot of cars filtering n.47 on 83 through the baltimore area. >> and 59 on the west side of the beltway. doing okay on 61 miles per hour. 95 through howard county.

but we need tiewk about quite a few incidents n. fact it starts with the storm damage in elkton. flooding. it completely shut down route 7 at crest fewview area. as a result you'll want to stick with 95 through. that say calm a ride through the area. there is an accident that shuts down the ram frps the northbound lanes to route 543. here is north of the accident scene. once you get nasd mess on the southbound lanes thing are look good for us. that's the same deal with the activity on the north end as well. heading down on 95 through ball sta more. it's getting busy from white march down to 695 and the building conditions remain on the beltway from overly down to townson and up towards 83. taking the outer loop lanes from jfx. we're clock in at a quick and easy four minute ride. we'll take that on the west side at liberty road. the cars zipping long the inner

and outer loop lanes heading to 70 and down to 40 and 97. on 97 not too much to complain about. in ra vera beach there is storm damage. fallen power lines that completely shuts down bedford road at clover. you can keep up with the conditions as they continue to change 24/7 with personal reports on your travels. log on fox ball fa

w this morning a the national weather service will determine if a tornado ripped through our area strong rain and wind left damage in many areas leaving some foom leez with a big clean up job today. baltimore county is considering installing speed cameras in school disoafnltz the measure is

expected to be introduced at council meeting to night. it will allow for 12 to 15 cameras in work or disool school zones. violate towards will be charged $50. and the annual open gets underway in the city. it is the wiggest fish tournament with $2.5 million in price money. more than 300 boats expected to compete. flu, the 300 million do flars cuts from the state budget. another 400 million to go. maryland's govenor is trying to balance the budget. the money has to come from somewhere and it it seems no one is exsem frpt potential cuts. for nor govenor bob urlick joins us this morning oosmg good good morning g. to see iewvment a lot of people have saying no neart how much you cut, we'll still have problems because we don't know how to stop spend.

well, look, we can go back tie couple of years and look what happened in the special sesmghts a lot of this goes back to the negligent acts that occurred in the special session where we spend more money. we blessed another billion dollars of new spending, special session and raced taxes. and off vee osly the taxes have served to minimize, de liewt the tax income street that you would other wise have. the national recession contributed to that more mare lands are snopg delaware and vest wir virginia and lower tax states. that is history. it is what it s. now we have a fiscal year that just ended june 30 where we were $400 million to the bay. not to the good. the govenor or public works has to now ball abc the books from the last fiscal year. now we're in the 2010 fiscal

year that ends next june 30. we're looking at a 700 million-dollar deficite, maybe a billion. and the next 2011 we're looking at a multi billion dollar deficite. here's the reason. people look at the powers sand a wow tharksz great. the government came in and helped with medication. out of federal stimulus dollars coming to maryland, 2.4 billion for medication and ed you caismghts those dollars will stop at end of 2010. when that occurs and enhanced base line gets to be here and the revenue descreem is here guess what this s. that's your huge knew structural deficite. now what you do about this is going to be an issue for the next govenor and next general assembly it's multi billion dollars. it's a big time deficite for a small state.

so the stimulus money helps for a short time. it's a band aid. and that doesn't solve the problem there. what happens, depending on the cushion, sometimes when you do cuts early in the crieblg, you get the benefit not just this year but next year as well. because you're not spending the dollars again next year. all right. govenor mallly's office says he has reduced spending by three p billion dollars. they have to have a constitution. for me he will not get much credit for this they went on a spending binge in 2007 knowing the recession was looming and raised taxes and spent more money and now the constitution saying hey, bait bay have you to have a balanced budget. it's some some phony bologna in my view but fact is you don't raise tax when the edge of a national recession. govenor urlick, thank you so much as always. >> ab sought light.

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he plays a homeless thanman, a vie o list lynnist. when the journalist discovers his talent, he does what he can to shoat world. and you can find robert downey junior in this heart warming film. >> and these two are not musical geniuses. and love the puppet. but they know how to draw a few laughs. brent and jermaine are two of the most famous new zealand folk sing ners the world. it's courtesy of the hbo show play of the con cortd i don't know if i remember you having a beard. it looked glued on. season two comes out tomorrow. >> and the master minds behind the blockbuster transformers are back with know, action fim. we'll preview gi joe, the rice

of cobra on friday. i'm can dissments that's the low down patrice. >> can dirks let's talk about the box office had weekend. everyone was anticipating at how funny people will would do. it was a decent day. broit in close to 9 million for the opening weekend it brought in 20 minute onthis was a movie that had a 75 million-dollar budget. that pus people who could lab or rated with the project in a tough spot this was the lowest no. 1 film for the entire year we're talking since january first. i don't next we'll have to see. hopefully word of mowblg will spike ns tr next weekend. hopefully for them. that's not so good. coming up in the 7 o'clock hour, don't go in the water. with have a sneak peak at shark week straight ahead. >> here a spot with cal ripkin

junior started his baseball career. hopefully a spot for kids

the government ived in your every kay life. what it ends up cost youing in the long run. monday on fox 45 news at 10:00. >> next on fox 45 morning news. >> it was, i tell you. for a grown man, ways shaken. i was scared to death. >> clean up continues in cecil county after severe storms leave behind down power lines, damaged roofs and broken branches. >> it's a bitter sweet ending. a gulf waw mystery is finally sostles. marines find a soldier missing for 20 years. >> and derek heyson back in action for the ravens. hear what brought him back to the purple and black. >> live in high definition from

wbff, tv in baltimore this is fox 45 morning news, all local. all morning. good morning. it is monday august 3, i'm patrice harris. we had a weekend full of child weather, tornadoes, heavy storms coming through the area. a lot of people come can cleaning up because of that today. meteorologist steve is here to fill us in on what we can expect today and through dwrowt week after a crazy weekend. yeah, much quieter today and tomorrow. maybe a pop up thunderstorm with the warm and humidity with you nothing like yesterday. as you said and also on friday. friday confirmed, two in frederick county and one in car roll county and we'll have sow to see what happened yesterday in cecil county. i saw the rains and heard it. where i lived wasn't quite as bad as tornadoes but still something to watch from indoors. i was in white mash. i tell you what, at lows i was shopping and i walk out way new

piece of lunn demplet i'm offton the weekend. i don't do weather then. i paid attention as signs came out the door. it was coming down then. that tirnd out to be active with weather for cecil own what we're look ago is the a much calmer scenario. scio watch radar. there could be fog still where there was rain yesterday. now activity with regard to rain in the atlantic ocean where we like see. it 74 in baltimore. 72 in chester town and bellair. temperatures generally in the low 70's and we should get up to will two degrees by the noon hour. 84 at 6:00 p.m. after getting to the high at 4:00 p.m. of 88 degrees with the northwest wind p becoming southwest at 5 miles per hour. tonight dropping to 69. it will be humid throughout the day. let's see what's happening on the roadways right now. candice is here with the traffic eaj. >> good morning. thank you steve and good morning. we have too deal with storm

damage this morning and flooding in elkton. they completely shut down route 7 at crestville avenue. as a result stick with 95. on 95 the entire northeast stretch from mountain road heading to 695 is getting busy there. wow right now we're look at an 11 minute commute. things are pick up on 95 lieu the city and fort ma ken ri tunnel. as for the o beltway, the outer lanes at jfx wrapping ash. we're looking at a 13 minute dry. more storm damage to talk about in pikeville in fact. fallen power cables and this completely blocked hillside drive at green spring avenue. that's a look at your morning commute. patrice can, back to you. 73 now on fox 45 morning news. you heard the rain and felt the winds yesterday but was it a tornado that ripped through our region. this morning the national weather service will make that determination. they'll be out evaluating the damage that many of you

unfortunately are still cleaning up this morning. meg begin gillan joins us now with the latest. it ways rough weekend megan. >> it was. the storms were hit and miss. seemed seems everyone got wet yesterday but not everyone is dealing with this today. take a closer look at what folks in cecil county are waking up to this morning. the clean up started last night. after the storm ripped through this neighborhood. still down power lines. broken branches covering the streets and even some of them up rooted believing many people homeless or some people at least this contractor assist the owner of this place are in their 70's and now have to move into a hotel for a while. >> major structural damage because the tree limbs and everything went through into the house and all the roof rafters and shingles, everything in there is wiped out. it will be condemned. all morning we have been getting photos from you of storm damage in your neighborhood. we just dot this in from dawb,

she says a lot of damage in this elkton mobile home park this morning. and check these out. scott sent these in. you can see how strong the winds were and quha they were able to do. near the bay john and ellen sent photos in there. severe weather left a lot to clean up there this morning. whether it's a photo of weather darnlings video of a story in your community or an up coming event, give us your take on fox baltimore.com. you can show video, photos or wrint stories by going to the web site. you can send pictures frur why cell phone to picks at fox baltimore.coom. of course we'll be talking about the national weather service to see if in fact it ways tornado. stay with us. megan gillan, fox 45 morning news. and baltimore county is considering installing spead cameras na school zones. one group is ready to put the brakes on the plan. the measure is will be introduced tonight at the

council meeting. it will lieu 15 cameras in work or school zones. violaters will be find 50 do rampletz but group is opposed to the legislation saying it's less about safety and more about make money for local government. a new state law opened the door for counties to install the cameras if approve oovmentd a a new york graduate having trouble finding a job is suing college where she earned her degree. trina thompson filed a lawsuit last week in supreme court. the 27-year-old is seek the $70,000 she spent on tuition. she says has been unable to receive gain full employment since she received her bachelor's degree in information technology back in april. we want know what you think. should the dleej have to reimburse the unemployed graduate? that's the question of the day. you can send us a tweet at fox baltimore. the start whaf could be a national program to help mentor

kids through sports is getting it's start at the same place. cal ripkin junior be gain has pro career. joel smith is live at the stadium site where an am bit shution plan for swing for the future. ambitious is right. we're talking five different ball parks. $6 million to make it april and get kids playing and tutor them a bit. i'm here with steve to tell us about. it this idea, where did it come from and we'll show pictures while we talk to you? the. i. >> i key came from a number of people including members of our board. charlie who say big supporter. trying to do something bigger and different than everyone else is doing. and what could be bet thearn this? >> yeah, and this location. how important is this site to your program. >> it is critical. this will be the flag ship field not just for baltimore but nationwide.

where are we looking in terms of pro gras gres here? we're halfway to the fundraising goal and hope to break down in early 2010. and this is supposed go nationwide right? absolutely. the doal is of the cal ripkin senior foundation is to help as many kids as we can and allow them to groavment we're talking with very tough nation hood. naik nationwide is our goal. and have you states you've moved around to and you got the plan moving in that direction. we'll tell you the low quhaitionz we join you next. weel for now live at the future and former stadium site. fox 45 morning news. and still hearksd the smooth jazz, we'll have a preview of the baltimore music festival. and violent storms rip through the state this weekend. now we're dealing with a clean up. in fact fallen power cables shut down a road in green

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the baltimore music festival is at center stage on saturday. alley joins us this morning to tell us all about the festival. good morning. >> good morning patrice. how you doing this morning something. i'm grade. tell me about the festival. it sounds like we'll get a lot of different stiestles music. >> yeah, this year's theme for the baltimore music festival is exflorg our music roots. we'll have goes becialtion soul, r&b and smooth jazz. >> and have you an example of some of the smooth jazz for us this morning. art gerald is with you? absolutely. he is on the show this year and he has a knew cd he is dropping and we'll be playing some of the

tunes from that particular cd that night. >> he is a favorite ours. we haven't seen in him in a while. can he give us a sneak peak? certainly. let's do something for baltimore art. ♪ >> you can watch the baltimore music festival on center stage on saturday at 7:00 p.m. for more information log on to fox baltimore 39 com and click on morning news. >> one thing we're not hearing today are rain drops of the heavy rain on the roof tovmentz we look at radar and it's looking a whole lot boater than this weekend when we had strong

storms and tore nad ik activity on friday for frederick and car roll county. and some storms through cecil county and a much dryer scenario today. looking very good. here's what we got on the bigger scoavment as we zoom out you see showers o offshore. that's due to the frontal boundry that pushed through yesterday here. and back out to the mismidwest this, activity will be moving north and east and out of our way. we're looking for bard twoord a much nicer day today. 74 degrees. mostly cloudy die skies. wins are cam. 64 percent relative humidity and 61 is the cue dewpoint. as you look at the temperatures you'll see 74 in baltimore and 73 in dc. 68 up in haggers town. 55 in oakland and again the frontal boundry is well off to the east. behind it high pressure builds n. a pref prettier day today with more sunshine after a couple of areas of fog in spots

where we sought heaviest rain. the high pressure builds in today and we'll be talking about not this front that moves to the east to the coast. the one behind it is coming in wednesday to thursday where we seat stormy weather return them. for the shore expect 88 degrees with mostly clear skies. west southwest wind after five to 10 miles per hour. encentral part the same 88 degree reading with a lot of sunshine coming you're way as well. northwest winds come bking southwest at 5 miles per hour. heading back to the west, 85 degrees, cool nert mountains if you're heading farther points west to the mountains around oakland. upper 70's there. otherwise mainly clear skies and west northwest wind after 5 miles per hour to. night 69 degrees a. eye humid day and humid night. as we get to 88 you see the climb to 82 for noon. getting to 88 at 4:00 a.m. and back to 84 at 6:00 p.m. tomorrow 91 degrees for the high. a hot one. humid as well. with the heat and humidity today

and tomorrow a 20 percent chance of a pop up thunderstorm but nothing like this weekend that will be a remote chance. a better chance as we get to mid week. 90 degrees with the front pushing through. 85 on thursday. afternoon or evening thunderstorms possible each day as well as friday or saturday with a high of 83 or 84. dryer on sunday, partly cloudy with a hive 86. fox 45 sky wooch is the at your fingertips. use fox 45 powerful radar sto track the income lg storms. it let's you see when rain or thunderstorms will be over your house. go to fox baltimore.com and click on ira dar. hopefully you use that yesterday or over the weekend. now here is candice with a look at roadways and traffic edge. thiewrchg steve. we're monitoring the average speeds out there. i can tell you it's starting to reduce a little bit. heading on 95 we did see a drop there. 55 miles per hour nofght northeast corner and 48 on the jfx. not doing bad with 60 miles per

hour on eight # through cockyville. and that's the same nun number on the west side wrapping around jfx. 59 through howard county on 95. what we're talking about is big time storm damage well. have flooding parts elkton. that shuts down route 7 at crestview avenue. 95 will be the better bet in the east corner. and storm damage in baltimore county as well. fallen power lines. completely shut down hills side drive at green spring avenue. falls road is not affected. that's good news if you're traveling through the area on the top end of the beltway airks smooth ride from jfx through green spring avenue and heading up to 75. on the west side of the beltway here at liberty road, it will be cruising along there on the inner loop lanes and outer loop stretch heading to 40 and now down to 97. on 97 nothing to complain b. but we have another incident because of the storm damage.

some fallen paw power cables and this shuts down bedford road in rivera beach. that's a look a the morning commute. patrice, back to you. thiewrchg candice. coming up in sports. after recently announcing his retirement. derk mayson returned to the practice field yesterday. why the sever says he is getting back into the became. >> and it was an ugly day for the oriels both on and off the feevmentd the world's worse between melton and

new this morning, baltimore county is considering installing speed cameras in school zones. the metro is expected to be introduced at tonights council meeting. it would lieu for 12 to 15 cameras in work or school zones. violators will be find $50. the 36th annual open gets underway today. the open is the largest bill fish tournament with it and a half million dollars in price money this year. more than 300 boats are expected to compete. >> good morning everyone.

i'm kristen bur set with the first look at sports. for the last 20 days or so many ravens fans and coaches and teammates rr w- are holding out hope that derrick mason would reconsider his retirement. they got their wish this weekend. he ended his restierment as suddenly as he announced it. sund day he was on the practice field with the team maissments he doesn't want a new contract and ♪ look past this year. he made the decision to return only after a lot of consideration. i had an opportunity to thirks sit wack and reee vawl airkts you know, the situation and you know, my career and everything else that goes a lock with it, and you know, career after football, things i wanted to do. and you know, discuss it with my family, with other people and i just wanted to make an informed decision about retirement, you

know. when i made it, i was sincere about. it it wasn't a situation or issue where it was a ploy or anything contract tiew a. it was a decision i made from the heart. it had nothing to do with anything else. but things that were goingen, so you know i got an opportunity to reevaluate it and think about it and talk to people and we felt it was best for me to finish this thing out. i think it sends a good mess aj to my children to finish what you started and i'm going to finish this thing out and see where i go from here. to be honest, when you leave the game you wa just want to be respected bit the coaches and peers. to know many in that situation when i was in and decided to retierks all the guys respected it and let me make my decision. they told me to take my time about the decision. i told the coach, when if i come back it's because i want to come

back. i don't want to discuss con trafntle it's because my heart is in it. i don't want to hear anything about could be tracks. i don't want that to be a carrot hang over my head. no, i can't get an extension. i haven't been talking about. it i'm coming back to play football and try to win a super bowl. that's it. i cold told the coach if i come back i'm 100 percent with the team and so i'm wack and 100 percent with the team. >> now switching gears to baseball. plenty of carnage at cam done hall yesterday. 28 runs and 38 hits and most unfortunately on the boston side. the red sox malled a six orioles pitch ears. all of whom could use therapy. jason bur continue was in a jam from the very beginning. baises load ntd first. drew seconds a shot to the gap and right center and it rolls all the way to the wall. gentleman could bee and kevin

you chris all come in to score. a three run double for drew and the red sox lead three to zero. top of the second. four to zero boston. he grounds a single. elz berry scores from third. red sox up five to zero. that was it for bur kiss. bot o. third, oriels up. adam jones up with basis loaded. he shoots a double into the right field corner. robert andy no scores from third and veer off right behind him. oh's trail seven to two. and aubrey hit the rocket to deep right field this off the score board. oriels down seven to four on the rbi double by huh. next beart. ty wig entofnlt he laises one count the left line. it hits off the foul pole for the two run home memplet just like that the oriels train seven to six. but after they score in the third, they come back in the 4th. base dz loaded for mike.

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baby in a if you months move to federal hill from harper county ready to start a new family and new life. but after living there only 11 days they moved out driven away by drug dealers, drug addicts and threats. and their experience isn't

uncommon. janet joins us this morning. good morning. >> good morning oocht it's an interesting study. it's a good case study of what happens in the city. >> they are family. they have jobs downtown where the professional familiar sli trying to tack to raise tax pace baissments i think it's interesting. it shows the problem lems with trying to revitalize neighborhood. south of federal hill. some of the houses are rehab. they tried to track higher price neighborhoods. the families are intimidate td out of the neighborhood. basically a lot of crug dealing going on there. and a lot of drug dealers loiter on the house. when the woman who was pregnant to say get off or stoop, they began initial tame dating here. we will harass you every day and screaming and yelling. then she found out previous tenant was hit in the head with a brak brick. so they felt it was not safe for her or her family to stay in

that apartment. >> this is a problem for the si tivment they roo trying to a track people to that area. precisely. the whole premise of the neighborhood is we're going to rehab the houses, get high rent and the hit city needs higher property taxes. the sit still needs people with jobs that are higher paying, if they can't a track people like that, the city doesn't have hope. this is incredibly important r. are police taking an extra look at those areas. one of the things she made clear to me is that the police rr not at favment the police were there all the time. i i it's interesting because it shows a limit to what police can do when you have social disorder like you have in this neighborhood. it's tragic. ool a right. steven. thank sow much. >> thank you. >> well, you can read more about this story by going to fox baltimore.com and clicken on invest gave tiff voice. >> still head, a mystery solved

i mean, it's great that we have finally accomplished an ending. the remains of a navy pilot found almost 20 years after his plane went down. >> here's a picture of the future version of memorial stadium. but today we're still looking at this i'm joel d. smith.

>> welcome back to fox 45 morning news. 7:31 is the time. i'm patrice harris. let's check in with meteorologist steve to see what we can expect after a weekend of crazy weather.

>> absolutely. tore nad ik weather over the weekend aivment whole lot weart today. 72 degrees. mostly cloudy skies. a little fog in spots where we had rain. 82 by noon and 84 at 6:00 p.m. after goaght a high of 88. right now 74 degrees and generally in the low 70's throughout area. it will climb to the 88 degree high with a pretty picture as you can see. sky watch radar not smoag anything but clear skies out there. at least with wards to the rain. let's take a look at the roadways so see what they have in store for you on the way to work. here is candice with the traffic edge. >> thank you steve and good morning. if you're heading out&, you need tony we're dealing with the storm damage this morning and it is affecting the morning commute. in parts of baltimore county in fact. in pikesville fallen power cables this completely shuts down hills side drive at green spring avenue. the good news is salz road will not ab fected by that if you're traveling on that core odor,

you'll be okay. as for the inner and outer loop rains moderate confessions. from jfx to green fringe avenue a a four minute cliep. and southbound lanes of 38 to 695, that will take 16 minutes. you'll have company but no significant delays. on 95 it's building quickly from mountain road heading down to 695. we're looking at a 12 minute clivment you need to know that in elkton we have flooding. that shut down route p at crestville avenue. use 95 instead. that's a look at the morning commute. patrice, back to you. >> thank you very much candice. 7:33 on fox 45 morning news. this morning the national weather service will determine fay for nay do ripped through our region yesterday. strong winds and heavy rain left a lot of damage in areas leaving many families way big clean up job today. meganmegan gillan joins us now h the late east good morning megan. >> good morning patrice.

a lot of gray skies and heavy rain. the severity depending on where you lived. here in the city very minimal. but in cecil county very devastate. take a look. this is where the clean up is beginning this neighborhood on st. michael's court. down power liendz, broken branches cover the streets here after yesterday's storm ripped through. some of the residents tell us they were inside their homes at the time. >> i opened up the front door and to look outside and i could see our tree went way over. everyone skirt wags blowing and the roof shingles were blowing all over. it shook the house. >> it was very scary. i tell you what for a grown man i was shaken. i was scared to deadged. frederick county also suffered damage. take a look at the video our from a a sprier. the tree roots ripped from the ground. yesterday's storm comes case

after tornado touched down in frederick and car roll county. it's possible that what you're cleaning up today could be of the aftermath of a tornado. the national weather service will be out looking at the damage to determine whether a tornado ripped through. whether it's a photo or video or story, give us your take on fox baltimore.covment you can send us to fox bat ta more.com slash you're taifnlgt you can send photos from your cell phone at pick at fox baltimore.com. coming up the next hour we'll show you more pictures that we're just get nothing our news room. storm damage from your neighborhood. megan gillan, fox 45 morning news. >> one military family gets answers after almost 20 years. the missing remains of a pilot was found in iraq. he was shout down on the first night of the gulf war on january 17th, 1919 1. his wreckage found in 1993 but no

sign of the pilot. now the marines stationed in the iraq have uncovered his bones and skeletal pragments. enough to naik a positive identification. it's a bitter sweet ending. i mean, it's great that we have finally a come accomplished an ending, but it is bitter sweet. they declared spiker the first american killed during the gulf waw. but ten years later they changed his stat us to missing in afntle in 2002 his status was updated again to mission captured. >> a new york graduate having trouble finding a job is suing the college where she earned her degree. she filed a law liewt last week against monroe college in new yoncht she is seek the $70,000 she spend on tuition. she says she has been untable to find gain full employment after receiving her bachelor's degree back in a. we want know what you

think. should the college have to reem burts unemployed grat graduates? it's our question of the day. the phone lines are open right now. you can send us a tweet at fox baltimore. >> and treasury secretary tim geithner is already backing way from president obama's cam bane promise to not raise taxes on the middle clasms read that story and more on this morning's washington times. sar ra has the brief. good morning. some of the stories we're watching from washington today. tax hikes on the middle class. president obama vowd not to do it during the campaign. now his treasury secretary and economic advisors say they will not rule it out or to pay for the sweeping plans to overhaul hedge care. tim month ni think geithner and larry summers make the tiewk show rounds say there are no tax plans for this year or next but pose will tease are open after that. trangs pore taition secretary ray la hood says those of you looking to trade your clun cer

in for the $4500 in cash, have until tomorrow to do so. fearing the program will be suspended. hood says cash for clunkers will die unless congress appropriate et cetera more money. while the house approved another 2 billion-dollar infusion last week to keep the popular program go, the senate has yet to afnlgt conservative lawmakers have skeptical about the government hand out and the administration's in a lilt built to calculate how much it actually needed fund it. though most analyst predict congress will approve the funds before break for recess at the end of the week. >> and today we begin a three part series of articles on the emotional toll hurricane katrina has taken on victims in new or reens liens. while the government has spent billions on the physical reconstruction on the devastating coast region rebuilding the mental state of

those impact has not seen the same reck nismghts the number of suicide and katrina related mental illness is on the rice. while the number of hospital beds to treat the mentally ill has been cut in half. that's just some of what we're following from the washington times. i'm tar ra walsh. back to you. >> and for more information on these stories log on to fox baltimore.com and click on washington times. >> baseball is coming back to 33 street. the same place where brooks, boog, eddie and cal used to play. it will be the new home for players of a different kind. joel smith is live at the stadium site with more. good morning joel. >> good morning patrice. we're talking about players of a different kind yet. maybe younger players. players from around the area that could use this home plate again. that's about the only thing left here for the old memorial stadium. hopefully not for long this is a rendering whaf they hope to put here. part of cal ripkin senior foundation and getting to start

playing games here and then maybe something else. we're a little sneaky aren't we? >> absolutely. we're hear with steve salem. towk about the foundation to bring kids in and talk about something else. >> what we're doing here is putting an ar ta fist shall surface in the feeltd for the kids. it's a ts it's a youth development park, a multi purpose place for kids to play safely and they can learn and grow. if the community wants to use it for competitive sports, wonderful. have you the ymca here. a senior center here. a walking track and running track for the seniors. education station fors the kids. >> that's the thing. you get the kids in here playing and what things happen after that in terms of mentor ship? >> exactly. sports is the hook. we get them in here and the kids have a chance to groavment we bring law enforcement to coach and mentor the kids. ymca coaches to work with the kids. we know the kids will pros per as a result. this say flag ship program here. the location will be here for

one of the ball fields. four others in the city of baltimore and they are talking about other states to do it as well to turn it into a national program. we're live at the future side of the old memorial stait stadium and the new stadium all at same time. i'm joel d. smith. fox 45 morning news. still head. whet your appetite with a preview of shark week. >> and tornadoes move through over the weekend. we get a quite

>> coming up on 7:43 now on this morning dag day morning. a sky watch radar looks a whole rot better than yesterday and over the weekend in general, friday we know there were tornadoes now confirmed in car roll county as well as frederick county. waiting to hear today about i c- cecil county whether storms moved through yesterday there brought them tornadic activity. for us, the radar indicates stormy weather up to the midwest that will stay to the north and east of us. here's is activity from yesterday remnants moving into the atlantic ocean. 74 degrees. a little fog in spots where there was rain yesterday. mostly cloudy skies being reported downtown. cam winds and 54 percent humidity. 29.99 raising on the barometer. 61 at dewpoint indicates it is still humid and will continue to be humid for the next few days. 74 in baltimore.

73 in dc and 69 in salz ber rivment cool ner oakland at 57 degrees. here's a front that's moved offshore now. take the rain with. it high pressure builds in and as a result we see sunshine and looking forward to that by this afternoon look pretty expected to be the case around here. and as we check out the future scan modelel, there's the front that dissipates north and east and in the wake comes another front and brings us the next chance of thunderstorms probably wednesday later noo in the day 'til thursday. naz the next chance for strong storms. for now here what we're looking at today. enjoy quiet conditions. even though it's 88 degrees. month 83 and mostly sunny. a pop up thunderstorm with humidity and heat. that is the case for the central part of state where we get up to 88 degrees for the high. plenty of sunshine for much of afternoon mixed with the clouds. it could be a pop up thunderstorm chance. if we see anything, it will not be nearly as strong as what we saw over the weekend.

58 degrees for the western part of state. 69 for the low tonight humid throughout the day today and tonight southwest winds at 5 miles per hour. looks like it won't be windy any time soon 'til wed gai when the storms come through. we get there at 82. at noon 88 degree reading for 4:00 p.m. and 84 at 6 o'clock with mainly clear skies. 91 for tomorrow. another day with mostly clear skies, hot and humid once more as well. and that will lend itself to the chance, 20 percent chance of a pop up shower or thssments then the real chances or the better chance comes in on wednesday for those thunderstorms as we get to 90 degrees again. that because the front that moves in our direction brings a chance for mid week storms through thursday. we can't rule out a thunderstorm for friday oor saturday as the temperatures come down a little bit to 83 and 48 respectively. 83 on sunday with partly cloudy skies. fox 45 sky watch weather is now at your finger trivmentz i-

radar is at fox 45 baltimore.com. interactive tools to see when the rain or thunderstorm lbz over your house. i hope you use it this weekend. go to fox baltimore.coom and click on i- radar to use that tool. here is candice with a look at your traffic edge. >> thank you steve werks had the violent storms that up ready through the area this weekend. now we're dweelgt damage. first we want to check on the average speed times. so far things are dropping down quickly. here it is on 95, 57 miles per hour in the northeast core mer and check this out. 38 miles per hour on the jfx. not doing too bad on 83 with 62 miles per hour. we did just see a drop on the west side of the beltway, 48 and 59. a little farther down on 95 traveling through howard county. we're talking about the storm damage and unfortunately we're feeling the effects in baltimore county. fallen power cables an they completely shut downhill side drive at green spring avenue. now falls road is not affected

through the area. at least that's a bit of a relief traveling on that stretch. heading on the beltway, from green spring up to jfx, have you to deal with the cars there. right now only looking ate four minute commute. the volume continues to build on the outer loop slains from parkville to townson. that will be the case on inner loop lanes. lighter heading down to overly. on 95 so far, the lanes are filling up the cars there on 95. now, a little bit farther up here is trouble. we have an accident that completely shuts down the northbound lanes of 95, that ram to route 543. so that ramp is going to be shut down right now. here is just north of the scene and you seek those cars are crews long there. both the northbound lanes and the southbound lanes a few more travel thrg heading down towards baltimore county. we have flooding talk about in elkton that will block route p at crestview avenue. as a result stick on 95. 95 a better bet in elkton use 40

traveling through the 543 exit. that's a look at morning commute. patrice, back to you. >> thank you candice. >> coming up next. after four moves fruit less job hunting. a new york woman is suing the college where she earned her bachelor's degree. she is demanding the schoolback pay back the $70,000 she spent on tuition. we want know what you think? should the college reem burts unemployed graduate? it's the question of the day. the phone lines are open right now. you can send us a tweet at fox baltimore. 7:48 is the time. you're watching fox 45 m

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trina thompson of new york is asking for the $70,000 she spent on tuition because she hasn't found gain full employment since earning her bachelor's degree. she says the bronx school of advancement has fail to give her the leads and career advise she was promise ood. the school says the lawsuit is completely without merit. we want know what you think. should the college have to recommend burst the college graduate. it's the question of the day. the phone lines are open right now. you can send us a tweet at fox baltimore. our first caller is ki. >> in ball it too more. good morning. what do you think about this graduate 1234 i think both sides have responsibility. a lot of schools have the development programs that only have you go to the library and read a book and the student don't benefit from this, so therefore what kind of employment can she go and then

find? is there a career counselor that knows what they are talking about? does she interview properly? it's a catch 22. >> there are a lot of questions. and even if the career development departments exist and so forge, they don't guarantee you a job? a lot of them on the web site say they do guarantee a job. is. >> to so that would be different. it's false add ver stiesment and if the school is represent utahable you would expect to get a job. i would expect a job if they guaranteed me one too. let's go to venus in cocky advice. hello. how are you some thorn something what do you think, should this woman get her 70,000-dollar back? no, in my opinion i think it's without her rit unless there's a secret law saying she should be guaranteed a job, i don't think it's appropriate. >> and it's only been four

months, she hasn't been out there that long. i think should o- she ghifd it more time. >> thank you somehow for your call. let's look at the twitter page. one coming in from ca selena saying it's a reception i don't understand how she would be success says full either way to sue or find a job immediately. that's the opinion there. thank you so much for your calls and for your tbeets this morning. coming up next. exploring the beast of the deep blue see. we take a close

n't let them get you. it's shark week and there's blood in the water. the discovery channel isinging shark biologist andy available to tell us more about what that means. good morning andy. good morning. how are you in baltimore.

shark week. in my mind that's the week i should stay way from the beach. for me it's like christmas in august. our premier kicks off this sunday, august 2. blood in the water look at at 1916 shark taks that happened in the jersey shore and five more episodes throughout week and a recap on friday. >> all right. a lot of people's first thought is to think about oh my josh, sharks, stay way. >> you probably go towards sharks. ab so lutly. if someone yells shark, i'm the first to jump in the water. tell us about sharks what we need to know thaw don't. >> first, there is a misconception of mind less eating machines. the truth is neither. they have fartherly intelligent as far as fish go. the aquarium we trained our sharks to come to dirn targets through positive reinforcement to come to the far gets to feed. they learn the behavior quickly. and sharks have a limited die

eight based on the species. they lawyerly go outside. the humans are not on the menu of any shark species out there. >> how do you account for shark attacks. we have to understand the shark attacks happen. the risk is extremely low. less than a hundred a takdz per year world ride. and last year only four fatalities. we know a lot of the taks happen to due to mistaken identity. a great white sthark might think a surfer at surface might look like a sea or a boogie board ner hawaii might look like a sea tur cel. off fend the a tasks mistaken identity happen in murky waw ear. you go on a lot of ciefs. you're not the lease bit nervous in. >> i've never been ner jows. to me it's the best place to be under water with sharks. the biggest one being shark after dark that premiers thursday night and we travel

around the world look at what sharks are doing when the sun goes down. hopefully everyone in baltimore siewns in ievment want to mention wrr a baltimore guy. wowrk in a at the quair yum here and they let you tof work with sharks. how great of them? it's great. the it's a great merger. tell us why the shark attack hots spots and i guess you done want to stay way from them but know where the attacks are happening? absolutely. the most attacks in the cord world have happened in florida. 610 attacks in the state of florida. the thing to recognize that only 13 have been fatalities. generally speaking nips by small shark species resulting in a few sphichs aivment couple o hot spots in after radar and aws strail where where the species live in one plairks the great white and tiger shark and bull shark. in these places you need to be caw shusms i've spent a lot of

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stadium. i never dreamed it would be this wonderful. and from pen pals to partners. how a few letters turned into happily ever after. >> live in high definition from wbfftv in baltimore this is fox 45 morning news. all local, all morning. >> good morning. it is monday august 3. i'm patrice harris. >> good morning. i'm megan gillan. we went into august with a bang and wondering if the storms we saw over the weekend will continue. meteorologist steve is here to fill news on the week fork forecast. good morning steve. good morning patrice. megan, it will be a quieter day today and tomorrow. but still a slight chance of a pop up storm around. slight. nothing significant like we saw this weekend when we had tornadoes move through on car roll county and frederick county as well on friday. and waiting to here if the storm

that moved through cecil brought with it stors tornadoes joad yesterday. right now the break and the frontal boundry has moved into the east into the atlantic ocean and north chance for storms. the front in the midwest north of illinois. but the one that's facialg points north in cab canada right now. that could be coming down our way and bring us stormy weather again by mid week, wednesday into thursday. right now looking good. temperatures around 73 degrees in battle ta more and low 70's elt wrvment looking at those temperatures climb a bit. main rily dry day today. warm and humid. thunderstorms returning mid week and look for less humid conditions. bit efned week it will be less, well, it it won't be nearly as hot either. let's take a look at the roadways niewvment candice hafs traffic edge. candice. >> thank you steve. we've been talking about the storm damage this morning and it is indeed affect the morning commute. especially in baltimore county. we have fallen power cables.

that completely shuts downhill side drive right at green spring avenue. as for the beltway in the area though, it's going to be a calm ride. and you can use that instead. for the 695, outer loop lanes heading from jfx to green spring, that takes four minutes and not too much to complain about on south 83 to 695. right now cloaking in at 16 minutes. 95 through the northeast corner heading from nown tan road to 69 5 , the moderate congestion we're dealing w. an 11 minute clip. we have flooding nup elkton that completely shuts down route 7 at crest sphriew air niewvment use 95 instead. megan, back to you. thank you candice. time is 804 on fox 45 morning news. you heard the rain and felt the winds yesterday but was it a tornado that ripped through our region this morning the national weather service will make that decision. they'll be out evaluating the damage that many of you as you can see here are still cleaning

thup morning. take a closer look at what speaks folks in cecil county are wake up to. the clean up started last night after the storm ripped through this neighborhood on st. michael's course. still has down power lined and broken branches covering the streets here. trees were uprooted leaving some homeless this contractor says the owners of this place are in their 70's and have moved into a hotel for a while. >> maig sore striewrk all damage because the tree limbs and everything went through into the house and all your roof rafters, the shingles and everything in there is just wiped out. it will be condemned. all morning we've been getting photos from you of the storm damage in your neighborhood. we just got this in from dawn land tree. she says a lot of damage at this mobile home park this morning. in elkton check out these, scott sent those in and you can see the strong winds were able to die lot of damage neemplet near the bay a similar scene. john and ellen captured photos

there. severe weather left a lot to clean up this morning. video of a story in your community or an up coming event. give us your take on fox baltimore.com. you can up load pictures, video and stories by going to fox baltimore.com and send us your take. and send your picks to folt baltimore.com from your cell phone. >> imagine being declared dead while your still a right. that's twhiepped a man shot by police during a burglary. he tried to rob a convenience store and lunged at police way night that's when an officer shot him. medics pronounced the man cead at the scene but now he is in critical condition at shock trauma. the city fire department is investigating the incident. the man's name has not been released. the start of what could be a national program to help mentor kids through sports is getting it's start at the same place cal ripkin junior began his pro career. jeel d. smith is life at stadium

site with more on an ambitious plan called swing for the future. good morning joel. good morning megan. i'll swing up to the fences here. the kids used to dream here about standing here and like eddie murry, hitting it out of park and soon enough, a park could be back here again. we'll call it the new memorial stadium. here tole tuesday about it from the cal ripkin senior foundation we have steve salem. how close are we? >> wheer halfway to the fundraising goal and hope to briek ground in 2010. there will be five ball parks around baltimore. in particular here's the wig one at the memorial stadium site. once you get the kids in here, what happens from then? >> baseball is the hook to get the kids involved. such such a need for a safe place for the kids to play. once we get them here we can reach them and help them groar, ed you you indication lotion obz

and life lessons and getting them out and running around. and baltimore, whand are the other sites? park heights that will be the second height and east battle morning hopefully west baltimore and last site will be a different section of the city. and this will be a national program, so we're talking to other cities in other states to get this going, the cal ripkin senior foundation is the place and for this place in plarks $1.5 million larks they are halfway there. sphru va money i think they'll take. it live in northeast baltimore. joel d smith. fox 45 morning news. >> still to come, get into the imroovment we're live with a preview of the baltimore music festival. coming up next in the

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will 81-4545 to win. that remains me of a saxophone i had when i was young. >> so little. sky radar looks like this, dry conditions right now and that's the way we hope it stays for a while. in fact it was seshly anything but case over the weekend. we had strong storms. on a serious note we had tornadoes push through fred rake and also carol county on friday. we're waiting to hear from the national weather service on the potential for tore naict activity that moved through cecil county yesterday. as active as it was we take a look at bigger picture and you see showers off shore. they moved off with the cold front that pushed through yesterday. behind this we see stormy weather up to the midwest that is storming out of the east. right now downtown partly cloudy skies. we're expect more sunshine today as high pressure builds n. winds variable at 3 miles per hour. the barometer right now holding steady rising.

61 is the dewpoint that means another humid day as the dewpoints numbers come up as well. 74 for the current temperature in battle more. same in dc and in salz berry 73 degrees. low 70's everywhere. 71 in haggers down. one exsement out in oakland, higher ill investigations, cooler air. it was the front that pushed through that brought us the strong stormy weather yesterday. it moved off to the east as you seefnlgt high pressure builds in now and as a result we'll enjoy more sunshine this afternoon. and so that will be a welcome change from what we had to deal with this weekend. very active weather indeed. high pressure moves into the area today. this frontal wound about dri weakens as it moves east. next comes for wednesday later in the day and into thursday head. that front we could have stormy weather once again wednesday afternoon or evening and again thursday as the front push thriewz. 88 degrees for the high temperature expected today. let's enjoy the calm while it lasts. mainly clear skies out there. that will be the same forecast

for the central part of state. keep in mind when we have the heat and humidity. a 20 percent chance of a pop up shower and thunderstorm. if we have anything t will be isolated in nature and not expected to be nearly as strong as what we saw this weekend. high temperature today of 85 degrees. mostly clear skies. tonight 69 degrees with partly cloudy skies. maybe mostly cloudy for a short time. southwest winds at 5 miles per hour and humidity with us today, tonight and a couple of days through wednesday. 91 for tomorrow's high temperature. once again with the heat and humidity. don't be surprised syan isolated shower in spot. only a 20 percent chance. then a better chance on wednesday with a hive 91 degrees. 85 on thursday with a thunderstorm chance in the afternoon and 38 for friday, 84 on saturday. still keeping in mind a shower and storm popping up. 86 a dryer day for sunday with partly cloudy skies then. fox 45 scwie watch weather is at your finger tivmentz i- radar is

veilable at fox 45-point com. you can use it to track incoming storms. use the tools to see exactly when rain or thunderstorms will be over your house. go to fox baltimore.com and click on i- radar. now here is candice with a look at roadways and traffic edge. >> thawmpg, steve. we're starting to see things slow down quite a bit on the roadways. starting out on 95, we're cloaking in at 43 miles per hour. we sue a significant drop there. 40 miles per hour on the jxf heading into the city and 48 on 83 through baltimore county. that is the same nun heading on the west side of the beltway to jfx. it fiks up a bit on i-95 through howard county. we're at 55. we're talking about storm damage this morning. we had the violent storms that up ready through the yairnd now we have issues because of it. starting out in baltimore county fallen power cainlz this completely shuts downhill side drive at green spring avenue. the good news is pal's road is

not affected by that. so that will be a smooth right there. heading on the beltway you'll have company but no significant delays from green pring avenue out to jfx. right now looking ate four minute commute. and cars to contend with on the southbound lanes of 795. usual drills from owens mills heading to 695. at the beltway on liberty road it will be a relatively easy drive. not too much brake lights to talk about from liberty heading down to 70. it paiks up a bit moving through kay denville and 95 and 97. not too much to complain about through an a ran da county. we have morris use to talk about in rivera beach. down power lines there. this completely shuts down bedford road at clover hill road. that's a look at yurp morning commute. patrice and megan, back to you. thank you candice. still head when sandra roars go indoors swrevment more tips on stage safe during a thunderstorm coming up next.

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dangerous. but when thunder occurs is the nature early warning system and most people don't take cover when thunder occurs. because by the time you see lightning, a lot of times it's too late. summertime, people out at swimming pools, usually when thunder roars you get out of the pool but you're still on the defnlgt and most people killed or struck by lightening were seek cover. because they saw the lightning. but had they gone in coors or nie car which is the appropriate place to occur when thunder first happened, they probably wofnt been struck. let's say you're outdoors at a park where is the best place to go? one to an enclosed building with niepg f. a simple lean to or shack doesn't do. it have you to have the metal piping that helps a track lightning and grounds it. or go into your car. under trees a terrible place to go. that's a myth that's not a good

place to go. let's talk about your campaign. of course rr trying to get it out there and help people know. for a modest fee, like $1800, we make huge numbers of highway dwraid signs that are every single recreational facility in howard county. the national weather service this, is their theme. first the first could part county to make it wide spread. we have recreation parts department who run are lots of programs and the school system and howard community college all doing the same kind of signage trying to get people to remember whrks thunder roars, that's the time go indoors. we sought weather forecast today. we have a rot of storms coming and saw them this weekend this do you think people will remember in it's nothing knew. storms have been around. the difference is people know lightning is dangerous but nature hooz an early warning system, thunder. ir think it's catchy i and a lot of meteorologist are using it.

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>> welcome back to fox 45 morning news, 8:29, almost 8:30. is the time. there you go. watching the clock count down. about morning i'm patrice. good morning i'm megan gillan. we watched the stormed this weekend we're hoping we'll be clear for a couple more days. meteorologist steve is here to tell iewssments and we'll be look a whole lot better today and tomorrow. we're looking good right now at 8:17. let's look at a and see what's happening out there. siewl see we don't have a whole lot on the sky watch radar. more quite this morning when we had tornadic activity. we're waiting to hear from national weather service to see if that was the case in cecil county. active weather today. much quiter. seven in in chester town. low 70's throughout area as you seek on the sky watch radar, the

frontal boundry behind. it much nicer conditions as we climb today to about 82 by the noon hour. 84 is what we expect to be at at 6:00 p.m. after getting to the high at 4 o'clock of 88 degrees. let's take on the roadways right now and see how we're looking for your commute. here is candice with the traffic edge. thank you steve. well, at 8:31 we're looking at storm damage out there. it is impact baltimore county. hillside drive at green spring avenue, fallen power cables. now falls road through the area will not ab fected that will be a much better commute four this morning. as for the welt way, things are look good and we're throfg. heading out on the main light, outer loop sired from jfx to 70. jun just a 12 minute commute. the cars are crews ago long from 70 to 95. that will take six minutes. oath southbound 95, not much to come prain w. we're look ate ten minute ride. that's a look at morning travels.

patrice, back to you. here are the stories we're following this morning. the national weather service will determine if a tornado ripped through our ri gone yesterday. strong winds and heavy rain left a lot of damage in some areas leaving many families with a big clean up job today. >> this art 'tis rendering shows the cal ripkin senior foundation hopes to put in plays besides this home plate left over to the memorial yum. it's a site that could be the flag ship for the goal to get kids involved in sports and mentoring them and helping them with the rest of their lives. this is just a start them. have plans for other states november the plan for wampletd and it cost money too. $1.5 million here. they are halfway through the funding. they need a little more to keep it going. >> four people seriously injured this morning after a continental airlines flight hit severe turbulence at around five po

dlofnlt was on his l- it's way from houston to rio de janeiro when it was diverted to miami because of the bad lavment 108 people on board. 26 injured and four of the passengers still in the hospital. most of your kids are still in summer camp. but before you know it, it will be back to school time. so what do you need to know about keeping your kids safe when the school year does start up again. red robin is making nancy 34eubg bride, the director of the center of missing and exploited children a striebl talk with us this morning. good morning nancy. >> good morning patrice. this is something parents aren't thinking about but this is the time. it's a good idea to start thinking about. it we know in 40 percent of abducts they happen when a child is going to and from school. we know that 84 percent of the time the kids getaway because they know what to do. that's why this relationship

with red robin is so terrific. you all have a great list of tips for parents. can you take us through some of those. i'm happy too. first and for most. don't teach your kids strange danger. talk to your kids about potentially dangerous sis situations rather than people. it's too hard told good guys from the bad guys and make sure your kids know there are good adults out there who can come to the rescue if they need. it law enforcement officers, school crossing guards. parents with children. make sure your kids know to stay together whether they are walking or riding their bike or at a bus stop and they don't fall for the tricks n. other words if someone wants them to go somewhere or do something, all they need to do is get out of that situation quickly and tell a trust add dult. >> what about short cuts on your way back and forth to school. bad die. stay on the beaten path. make sure you're with other people and you know that neighborhood and you know where to go if you do get into trouble. >> and if kids find themselves

in trouble, dot majority of kids know their phone numbers, address, and how to get norsz contact with their parents. that's a great thing to start talk to your kids about now. go over it, practice. it the telephone number. how to reach new an emergency and if they have a cell phone, maybe make sure they know the rules about using it. that's a great way to have the immediate access if they need. it is there an age too young to bring up the subject of strangers or is any age a good age. we say as soon as a child can start putting words together and make sefnlts you can start talking about simple basic concepts like check first, stwaig other people and getting out of situations. so as soon as your child can start understand concepts, you can start talking about it. and real quickly nan circumstances how do you talk to the kids without scaring them and getting them tie point of oh, i'm afraid of anything and eerchlt oh, that's what i love

about cook boot at red robin pot covment you can down load it and make some of the recipes maingd it a discussion in staifd lecture. don't rely on fear. fear is paraliegz. we want to make sure children understand this is part of their daily living and they need to know some of the tips so they can stay safe eemplet a. okay and is there a web site for the cookbook. red robin.com to down load the free cookbook.

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watch. looking nice indeed compared to yesterday and compared to friday when on friday we had three tore nay doavmentz two many frederick county and one in car roll county. we're waiting to see if yesterday's activity in cecil in voldz a tornado or more. we'll see by later today what the national weather has to say. bit rite now looking better. a much quite erlg deal right now way cold front off to the sea bompletd you can see at atlantic take the rain with it back to the northwest of us up towards the midwest seeing showers with thunderstorms wilt in this will move to the north and east and out of our way. not concerned about that 74 degrees is the temperature right now with 35r9ly cloudy skies and variable wind just 3 miles per hour. hardly any wind at a.64 percent relative humidity. 61 tt dewpoint. looking at another humid day as temperatures climb well into the 50. right now at 74 in baltimore and the saiment tore cd. 71 in salisbury and oakland 71

degrees where it was erl yir in the 50's. there goes the front ta as i was saying that brought the rain yesterday. behind that more rain and brings us sunshine. should be a pretty afternoon and boy, don't we ce serve. it high pressure builds n. this frontal boundry steers nornlgt as i was saying. look what comes our way mid week into thursday. the next front that could be producing thunderstorms for wednesday later in the day and into your thursday. the high temperatures today in the eastern show of 88 degrees with mainly clear skies and a west southwest wind at five to 10 miles per hour. central part of state getting up to the same 88 degrees with a lot of sunshine. it will look much prettier. northwest becomes southwest at 5 miles per hour. back to the west we go. hi toop hereof 85 degrees. mainly clear skies way west southwest wind at 5 miles per hour. tonight 61 degrees and southwest wind at five mievmentz humid today, tonight and humid for the next few days tomorrow 91 diseevmentz doj both today and

tomorrow a 20 percent chance of a pop up or size o laitd shower or thunderstorm around. a much dryer scenario generally speaking today. i want town wear when you have the heat and humidity airks little activity. it's with the front on wednesday that we see a hive 91 degrees and a chance of thunderstorms again. eight a five on thursday. more thunderstorm chances. can't rule out a thunderstorm on friday and saturday as well. 86 dryer on sunday with partly cloudy skies. fox 45 sky wax weather is the you're finger tivmentz i- radar is vaibl on fox baltimore.com. you can use it to track incoming storms. the tool let's you see when rain or thunderstorm lbz over your house. go to fox baltimore.com and click on i- radar. now candice is back with afy flal look this morning at traffic edge. >> thank you steve. we have been dmek on your average speeds and right now not doing too bad. 43 miles per hour on 95. it is finally starting to pick

back up. it will still be a bit plug gish there. 47 on the jfx head nooght downtown region. 59 on 83 traveling through baltimore county. it will be pretty easy drive there with 43 miles per hour and starting to pick back up on the west side. 55 # there on 95 traveling through howard county. we need to talk about storm damage and in fact we have some of that in baltimore county. fallen power lines has completely shut downhill side drive at green spring avenue. gt news is that falls road will be cam moving through the area. that will be a better bet four this morning. headen tont belt way, the inner loop lanes out towards jfx, not much to complain about there. right now we're looking ate four minute commute. it does get heavy on the top end from parkville heand heading towards townson and hitting the construction zones on 83. on nine 5 , a lot of cars to contend with. it will be a bit clut terd

moving through. and farther up moving at route 543. here it is light activity there. the southbound lanes and the northbound stretch as well heading up to the delaware line. now, we do need to talk been ice issue. flooding fafnlgt it completely shuts down riewd route 7 at crestview avenue. 95 will be a much better bet for the alter next that's a look at morning commute. patrice and megan back to you. >> still a- thank you candice. still head he is back and better than ever. jeff shares what he learned on a culinary tour of it late. (announcer) when verizon brings 100% fiber optics straight to your home

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joins us this morning more. >> good morning. good morning, how are you? >> i'm good. always good to be here. tell us about your trip. >> i went to tuesday can na, tuesday ca any. and you connected me before. i like to call it tuesday can any. because they cooked a lot of game food. duck with fes ant, wild boar, deerks today i brought fa nor ra, which is in the family of chicken and hen. >> that sounds strange to me. everyone talks about it being game i those kind of meals. it doesn't have to be though. it's not. wild boar. it has become very popular here. it's a very delicious meet but almost no fat. no kidding. the wild boar. that fits into what we're get nothing today. and this kind of food is again fa fan. >> what are you making today.

i made fa nor ra, in the family of kitchen and hen. it was mare nateed in rosemary and sage for 24 hiewmpletz it is papa deli, a kind of pasta. i don't have to say it us j just be able to eat too. you make that in the papa deli and toss ca na. by the way, megan gillan told me she is excited because she heard i was talking to you before i 234-rs and heard it only takes three minutes. if it takes less time that her four minute tv dinner. it takes three minutes, it's mare nateed, very tender and cook the way it is just like that. and we'll disregard the sage and now that it's cook. we're going to add our white wine to this and cook the white wine. megan, i hope you're paying attention. okay it will cook with the white wine very shortly. not too long.

>> okay. >> now wier we'll at our julian cuts of zoo gee knee and carrots to give it nice color and now the papa della is cooking in the water. we'll cook this 'til it gets really carmalized. is this one of the bishz you picked up while out there? >> yeah. you. >> you can use this putney meat in there. lanl la m. fish no,. >> what about wild boar? >> fine. if you can find t it will be great. i can buy it, i just can't hunt. it what you have to do is add morrow broth in there. vegetable broth. that smells good. we add cheese to it and the finalize this with tomato. it is very easy and very good. now you finish it off together, we take our papa deli and add it to the pasta, the pasta, add it

to the sauce which is just exactly like that and of course that's a wide pass pa tax i like the look of that. and it's like that. we add more cheese. what kind of pasta is that, papdelli. very nice, it comes from the water. you wait 'til it becomes more dense in volume. it becomes think. >> okay. and then you dish it out oocht and for our purposes we're going to plate it right now and that will look beautiful. we'll have to wait 'til some of the sauce has been. >> evaporated. >> okay. >>. but the dish itself has a beautiful look and a beautiful view about it. >> okay. the food is done. >> beautiful as always. i can't wait to taste it. for more log on to fox battle.com and click on morning

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today. we'll have a much better weather day today as temperatures climb to a. >> humid. 5088 degrees. we're talking a laughing a little bit. 91 degrees for the high temperature tomorrow and then we'll talk about thunderstorms moving in for mid week. looks like then we could get more active weather. 90 degrees on wednesday. 85... on thursday. and it's one of those days. eight 3, 84 and 86 the rest of the week. do you ever know not know where you're laugh. this weather is not to laugh about. the weather. today we'll be able to breathe and laugh a little more. all right. so the real question is megan, you fold the chevment you saw what he is was cook, can you cook that? will that be your tv dinner? like i said before, if i can find the board, we'll be in business. it's like finding that wild boar around. one oo if i can do that i'll

make dinner fofer everyone. five minutes in and out have you to bring it n. i'll bring it in. we have to cook tv din nempletz you hunt the boar and iem i'll make the dinner. all right. we're going back to cave caf man days. where are we going to find it? in the wild i guess. i guess we'll have to go to geneva. maybe we'll do that we'll see you tomorrow. take care. >> real-time closed captioning provided by u.s. captioning company.